Synonyms for bewildered
be·wil·dered

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1. baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at seaadjective

   perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

   "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"

   Synonyms:
   scattered, befuddled, helpless, lost(p), mixed-up, disoriented, woolly, bemused, deep in thought(p), disjointed, disordered, preoccupied, at sea, illogical, woolly-headed, missed, confused, disconnected, unconnected, addled, muddled, baffled, upset, lost, befogged, confounded, muzzy, wooly-minded, broken, wooly, garbled, mazed

   Antonyms:
   unperplexed

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1. bewilderedadjective

   Synonyms:
   perplexed, confused, mystified, nonplused, obfuscated

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1. List of paraphrases for "bewildered":

   perplexed, puzzled, confused, baffled, stumped

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How to use bewildered in a sentence?

1. Calvin Coolidge:

   When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

2. Jean Cocteau:

   The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

3. Walter Lippmann:

   The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

4. Jim Wayne:

   It's an enormous building, so, I'm just, I'm totally bewildered by this. This is completely puzzling why we haven't found out anything.

5. Bill Cosby:

   If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.